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KNOWLEDGE, 



[April, 1903. 



an abiinilance of defences. The Queen sacrifice leads to a 

 ])ure mate ; but even here three White pieces, besides the 

 King, are mere spectators. The other mates are for the 

 most part very impure. Altogether the position is greatly 

 overcrowded, and the absence of a second solution is really 

 surprising. 



The best of the other sound problems, mentioned in 

 order of publication, are, I thinlv, No. 1, " Per Aspera ad 

 Ardua " ; No. 9, "Satis" (a, good problem, but our solvers 

 evidently will not stand the minor duals inseparable from 

 compositions of the German school); No. 17, "Brutum 

 Fulmen " ; No. 22. " By indirection, etc. " (very good but 

 for the triple continuation after 1. . . B to B6) ; No. 23, 

 " Seeing the thing through " (a very clever and original 

 piece of work, but the key is weak, and, again, the minor 

 duals were against it), and No. 25, "Inter Pocula " (see 

 note on No. i»). 



Of the imsound problems. No. 2, " Fort Nachanand," 

 was a truly magnificent conception, the " race of the 

 Knights" being distinctly humorous. No. 11, "With 

 how much labour, etc.," was also a fine problem, the 

 composition of the winner of the last Knowledge 

 tournament. 



On opening the sealed envelopes, I find that the 

 followng are the prize-winners. The award, as usual, 

 will remain open for one month. 



First Prize. — " Ariadne." 

 By Gr. Heathcote (Manchester). 



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White mates in thi-ee moves. 



Second Prize. — " Ben trovato." 



By W. Geary (London). 



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Third Prize. — " Possibilities." 

 By H. F. W. Lane (Stroud). 



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"White mates in three moves. 



The following problems (given in Forsyth notation) 

 obtain honourable mention : — 



No. 18. "Bargany" (F W. Wvnne, Dudlev)— 2 B 1 N 1 

 K 1. 1 r 1 p ]. 3, 1. R 4 p 1, 3 k 4, Q 1 p 2 P p 1, 1 R 2 B u 2, 

 8, 8. 



( No. 13. "Leonard" (B. G. Laws, Loudon) — 4K2b, 

 » 1 p .5 P, 1 P 6, 3 B k 3, 1 p P 1 N 3, .5 Q 2, n 1 P .5, 8 

 ■j No. 4. "Three steps and a shuffle-off" iG. J. Slater, 

 ( Liverpool)— 8, 8, 4 p 3. 1 P k 1 N 2 Q, 8, 2 N 5, 8, 2 K 5. 



The composers of the remaining problems were as 

 under : those marked with an asterisk proved to be 

 unsound. L, P. L. Osborn (London) ; 2,* K. Erlin 

 (Vienna) ; 3, E. G. B. Barlow (Surbiton) ; 5,* E. Palkoska, 

 (Bohemia) ; 6, R. J. Bland (India) ;- 7,* J. Miiller (Den- 

 mark) ; 8, A. P. Bree (Jersev) ; 9, J. Jesperson (Denmark) ; 

 11,* A. G. Fellows (Watford) ; 14, Rev. R. J. W^right 

 (Worthing) : 1-5,* H. W. Schmidt (Honolulu) ; 16, V. de 

 Barbieri (Russia); 17, Horace Pitt (Cardiff); 19, J. W. 

 Dawson (Grimsby) ; 20, Max J. Meyer (Boscombe) ; 21,* 

 R. H. Andrews (Jersey) ; 22, Percy Healev (London); 23, 

 J. W. Abbott (London) ; 24, P. (i. L. F.' (Twickenham); 

 2.5, R. Hollstein (Berlin). 



It is rather remarkable that no Continental composer 

 received a single vote from any of the solvers who acted 

 as preliminary judges. 



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